It’s something most of us have thought – whether it’s because of a supermarket tannoy or because of a telephone call: “Hey, that voice sounds familiar.”
And now that same thinking will hit hundreds of students again – or at least those who don’t read this report – as the new sound on-board the Arriva bus services is announced.
Third-year student George Hughes poses for a snap alongside YUSU Sports President Cassandra Brown and YUSU President Kallum Taylor outside the students’ union offices after he is officially unveiled as the new voice of the transport network between York and Selby.
The PPE undergraduate, who shot to campus fame after sparking a debate about the bollards on Heslington Road last year, will help customers find their destinations on board a swathe of Arriva bus services with sentences like: “This is the Number 42 service to…” and “The next stop is…”.
Mr Hughes, who recorded his lines in the URY studios, hailed it as a “great opportunity”. He told Vision: “I’m very much looking forward to sitting on buses and naming random stops to confuse people.”
Kallum Taylor added: “Arriva approached us and the University early in the New Year with the intention of operating a more student friendly service. One of the ideas they had was to have a student be the ‘voice’ of their new system which announces stops along the route of their buses. I knew that George would be well up for this. He’ll be famous across the A19 now with locals and students alike.”
Where do these buses even go?